All Joseph Priestley Quotes
- In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others. Completing
- The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more… Boundaries
- It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a… Age
- But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. Die
- It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. Communication
- Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we… All
- The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Been
- This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names. Difficult
- To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you… Conscious
- Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to… Any
- What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. Admiration
- In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we… Cannot Solve
- I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with. Air
- The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light… Afterwards
- Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. Association
- Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy. Bishop
- How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may… Actual
- We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire... Color
- The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. Communicate
- Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. Deserves
- As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is… Children